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• A great man is always willing to be little.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Spiritual, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

  Herodotus

  Clothes, Remember

  Herodotus (1806). “Herodotus: A sketch of the life of Herodotus. Chio. Euterpe. v. 2. Euterpe continued. Thalia. Melpomene. v. 3. Melpomene continued. Terpsichore. Erato. Polymnia. v. 4. Polymnia continued. Urania. Calliope. Index”, p.39

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• I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Fun, Mind, Progress

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Reality, Vision

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• True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

  Joseph Addison

  Criminals, False Modesty

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.406

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• The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

  E. W. Howe

  Humility, People, Persons

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• Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Thinking, Coke

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• No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

  Bruce Barton

  Sex, Men, Age

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• Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Clothes

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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• Modesty forbids what the law does not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Law, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Vanity, Sometimes, Ultras

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.1

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• I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Critics

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

  Hector Berlioz

  Humility, Pride, Failing

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• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Respect, Understanding, Tolerance

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• Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Giving, Shade, Merit

  "Characters: Of Personal Merit," #17, 1688.

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• With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Honesty, Hypocrite

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• Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.

  Marietta Holley

  Thinking, Political, Ems

  Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.28

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• Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Alaska, Quality

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Collected by Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.26

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• Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Flower, Virtue, Breasts

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

  Alexis Carrel

  Brother, Prayer, Men

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• Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Humble, Say Anything, Would Be

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• Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Maturity, Vivacious, Calm

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.200, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.

  Omar Suleiman

  Humble, Helping Others, Done

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Mar 05, 2013

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• It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Men, Strange, Boldness

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